The Aspen Music Festival and School is a world-renowned classical music festival held annually in Aspen, Colorado, attracting some of the world's most talented musicians to perform and teach over an eight-week summer season. Experience a range of world-class performances at venues throughout Aspen, including the Michael Klein Music Tent, Harris Concert Hall, and the Wheeler Opera House.
2025 Schedule
July 8 | 6:30pm | Klein Music Tent | 2025 Opera Benefit: An Evening at Café Momus
Aug 11 | 6pm | Hurst Hall | 2025 Season Benefit: A Feast of Music
July 2 | 6pm | Hurst Hall | Low Strings Concerto Competition
July 5 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Overtures: Preconcert Chamber Music
July 7 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Chamber Music
July 11 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Overtures: Preconcert Chamber Music
July 12 | 1pm | Top of Aspen Mountain | Music on the Mountain
July 12 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Chamber Music
July 12 | 6pm | Hurst Hall | Violin Concerto Competition
July 14 | 6pm | Aspen Art Museum | Music with a View
July 17 | 8pm | Hurst Hall | Woodwinds Concerto Competition
July 18 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Overtures: Preconcert Chamber Music
July 19 | 1pm | Top of Aspen Mountain | Music on the Mountain
July 19 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Chamber Music
July 22 | 8pm | Hurst Hall | Brass Bash I
July 24 | 8pm | Klein Music Tent | Wind Orchestra Recital
July 25 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Overtures: Preconcert Chamber Music
July 26 | 1pm | Top of Aspen Mountain | Music on the Mountain
July 26 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Chamber Music
July 28 | 5pm | Hurst Hall | Brass Concerto Competition
July 29 | 1pm | Harris Concert Hall | Harris Concert Hall Master Class
Aug 1 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Overtures: Preconcert Chamber Music
Aug 2 | 1pm | Top of Aspen Mountain | Music on the Mountain
Aug 2 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Chamber Music
Aug 6 | 6pm | Hurst Hall | Piano Concerto Competition
Aug 7 | 5pm | Anderson Ranch Arts Center | Anderson Ranch: AMFS Guitar Students in Recital
Aug 8 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Overtures: Preconcert Chamber Music
Aug 9 | 1pm | Top of Aspen Mountain | Music on the Mountain
Aug 9 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Chamber Music
Aug 9 | 7pm | Edlis Neeson Hall | Woodwind Bash I
Aug 11 | 6pm | Aspen Art Museum | Music with a View
Aug 12 | 8pm | Klein Music Tent | Wind Orchestra Recital
Aug 15 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Overtures: Preconcert Chamber Music
Aug 16 | 1pm | Top of Aspen Mountain | Music on the Mountain
Aug 16 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Chamber Music
Aug 16 | 7:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Alexander Malofeev
Aug 17 | 7pm | Edlis Neeson Hall | Woodwind Bash II
Aug 18 | 6pm | Aspen Art Museum | Music with a View
Aug 20 | 7:30pm | Hurst Hall | Brass Bash II
Aug 23 | 4:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Chamber Music
July 6 | 10am | Edlis Neeson Hall | Piano Department Master Class
July 7 | 10:30am | Pitkin County Library | Tunes and Tales
July 8 | 1pm | Harris Concert Hall | Harris Concert Hall Master Class
July 9 | 10:30am | Basalt Regional Library | Tunes and Tales
July 10 | 10am | Harris Concert Hall | Piano Department Master Class
July 15 | 1pm | Harris Concert Hall | Harris Concert Hall Master Class
July 16 | 10:30am | Basalt Regional Library | Tunes and Tales
July 17 | 10:30am | Pitkin County Library | Tunes and Tales
July 20 | 10am | Edlis Neeson Hall | Piano Department Master Class
July 20 | 11am | Harris Concert Hall | Breath Work Master Class with Stephen King
July 22 | 1pm | Harris Concert Hall | Harris Concert Hall Master Class
July 23 | 10:30am | Basalt Regional Library | Tunes and Tales
July 24 | 10:30am | Pitkin County Library | Tunes and Tales
July 27 | 10am | Edlis Neeson Hall | Piano Department Master Class
July 30 | 10:30am | Basalt Regional Library | Tunes and Tales
July 31 | 10:30am | Pitkin County Library | Tunes and Tales
Aug 3 | 10am | Piano Department Master Class
Aug 5 | 1pm | Harris Concert Hall | Harris Concert Hall Master Class
Aug 7 | 10am | Harris Concert Hall | Piano Department Master Class
Aug 12 | 1pm | Harris Concert Hall | Harris Concert Hall Master Class
Aug 17 | 10am | Edlis Neeson Hall | Piano Department Master Class
Aug 19 | 1pm | Harris Concert Hall | Harris Concert Hall Master Class
Aug 21 | 10am | Harris Concert Hall | Piano Department Master Class
Aug 23 | 10am | Wheeler Opera House | Opera Encounters: Arias and Scenes written by AMFS Composition Fellows
July 2 | 4pm | Karetsky Music Lawn | A Mariachi Celebration Fiesta
July 2 | 5:30pm | Klein Music Tent | A Mariachi Celebration
July 6 | 2:30pm | Karetsky Music Lawn | Community Pride Celebration
July 11 | 7pm | Meadows Hospitality Tent | AMFS Appreciation Event
July 19 | 9am | Meadows Hospitality Tent | Kids Notes
July 19 | 10am | Klein Music Tent | Family Concert
Aug 3 | 2:30pm | Meadows Campus | Ice Cream Social
July 6 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Prelude: Preconcert Talk
July 9 | 12pm | Hotel Jerome | High Notes Panel Discussion
July 10 | 5pm | Aspen Chapel | Connecting Music, Others and Ourselves: Conscious Listening with Pianist, Hsing-ay Hsu
July 11 | 12:30pm | Crossroads Church | Art of Listening
July 13 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Prelude: Preconcert Talk
July 16 | 12pm | Hotel Jerome | High Notes Panel Discussion
July 18 | 12:30pm | Crossroads Church | The Art of Listening
July 20 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Prelude: Preconcert Talk
July 23 | 12pm | Hotel Jerome | High Notes Panel Discussion
July 25 | 12:30pm | Crossroads Church | The Art of Listening
July 27 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Prelude: Preconcert Talk
July 30 | 12pm | Hotel Jerome | High Notes Panel Discussion
Aug 1 | 12:30pm | Crossroads Church | The Art of Listening
Aug 3 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Prelude: Preconcert Talk
Aug 6 | 12pm | Hotel Jerome | High Notes Panel Discussion
Aug 8 | 12:30pm | Crossroads Church | The Art of Listening
Aug 10 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Prelude: Preconcert Talk
Aug 13 | 12pm | Hotel Jerome | High Notes Panel Discussion
Aug 15 | 12:30pm | Crossroads Church | The Art of Listening
Aug 17 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Prelude: Preconcert Talk
Aug 20 | 12pm | Hotel Jerome | High Notes Panel Discussion
Aug 24 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Prelude: Preconcert Talk
July 5 | 10am | Wheeler Opera House | Opera Encounters: Arias and Scenes
July 11 | 5:30pm | Klein Music Tent | Beethoven's Iconic Fifth Symphony
July 12 | 10am | Wheeler Opera House | Opera Encounters: Art Song
July 15 | 7:30pm | Klein Music Tent | Special Event: My Fair Lady in Concert
July 19 | 10am | Wheeler Opera House | Opera Encounters: Arias and Scenes
July 21 | 7pm | Wheeler Opera House | Mozart's Così fan tutte, K. 588
July 23 | 7pm | Wheeler Opera House | Mozart's Così fan tutte, K. 588
July 26 | 10am | Wheeler Opera House | Opera Encounters: Historic Singers Lecture
July 26 | 7pm | Wheeler Opera House | Mozart's Così fan tutte, K. 588
Aug 2 | 10am | Wheeler Opera House | Opera Encounters: Arias and Scenes
Aug 6 | 7pm | Harris Concert Hall | Handel's Messiah
Aug 9 | 10am | Wheeler Opera House | Opera Encounters: Arias and Scenes
Aug 16 | 10am | Wheeler Opera House | Opera Encounters: Arias and Scenes
Aug 19 | 7:30pm | Klein Music Tent | Puccini's La bohème
July 5 | 9am | Klein Music Tent | Dress Rehearsal: Mendelssohn's "Reformation" and Bruch
July 5 | 5:30pm | Klein Music Tent | Mendelssohn's "Reformation" and Bruch
July 6 | 9:30am | Klein Music Tent | Dress Rehearsal: Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 with Joyce Yang
July 6 | 4pm | Klein Music Tent | Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 with Joyce Yang
July 9 | 5pm | Klein Music Tent | Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra
July 11 | 9am | Klein Music Tent | Dress Rehearsal: Beethoven's Iconic Fifth Symphony
July 13 | 9:30am | Klein Music Tent | Dress Rehearsal: Barnatan and Conlon with Literary Notes: Bernstein and Shostakovich
July 13 | 4pm | Klein Music Tent | Barnatan and Conlon with Literary Notes: Bernstein and Shostakovich
July 16 | 5pm | Klein Music Tent | Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra
July 18 | 9am | Klein Music Tent | Dress Rehearsal: Elgar and Vaughn Williams
July 18 | 5:30pm | Klein Music Tent | Elgar and Vaughn Williams
July 20 | 9:30am | Klein Music Tent | Dress Rehearsal: Seong-Jin Cho Plays Mendelssohn Piano Concerto
July 20 | 4pm | Klein Music Tent | Seong-Jin Cho Plays Mendelssohn Piano Concerto
July 23 | 5pm | Klein Music Tent | Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra
July 25 | 9am | Klein Music Tent | Dress Rehearsal: Brahms's Third Symphony, Ravel, and More
July 25 | 5:30pm | Klein Music Tent | Brahms's Third Symphony, Ravel, and More
July 27 | 9:30am | Klein Music Tent | Dress Rehearsal: Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto
July 27 | 4pm | Klein Music Tent | Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto
Aug 1 | 9am | Klein Music Tent | Dress Rehearsal: Ravel Piano Concerto with Lise de la Salle
Aug 1 | 5:30pm | Klein Music Tent | Ravel Piano Concerto with Lise de la Salle
Aug 2 | 8pm | Klein Music Tent | Siddhartha, She
Aug 3 | 9:30am | Klein Music Tent | Dress Rehearsal: Shaham Plays Bruch Violin Concerto
Aug 3 | 4pm | Klein Music Tent | Shaham Plays Bruch Violin Concerto
Aug 6 | 5pm | Klein Music Tent | Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra
Aug 8 | 9am | Klein Music Tent | Glover Leads Schubert's "The Great" Symphony
Aug 8 | 5:30pm | Klein Music Tent | Glover Leads Schubert's "The Great" Symphony
Aug 10 | 9:30am | Klein Music Tent | Dress Rehearsal: Hadelich Plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Aug 10 | 4pm | Klein Music Tent | Hadelich Plays Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto
Aug 13 | 5pm | Klein Music Tent | Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra
Aug 15 | 9am | Klein Music Tent | Dress Rehearsal: Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Aug 15 | 5:30 | Klein Music Tent | Cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason
Aug 17 | 9:30am | Klein Music Tent | Dress Rehearsal: Ravel's Bolero, Alisa Weilerstein
Aug 17 | 4pm | Klein Music Tent | Ravel's Bolero, Alisa Weilerstein
Aug 20 | 5pm | Klein Music Tent | Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra
Aug 24 | 9:30am | Klein Music Tent | Dress Rehearsal: Beethoven's "Emperor" and Holt's "The Planets"
Aug 24 | 4pm | Klein Music Tent | Beethoven's "Emperor" and Holt's "The Planets"
July 3 | 7pm | Klein Music Tent | Special Event: The Music of John Williams and More
July 4 | 4pm | Klein Music Tent | Fourth of July Concert
Aug 22 | 5:30pm | Klein Music Tent | Patti LuPone in Concert: A Life in Notes
July 2 | 7:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | Conrad Tao
July 7 | 7:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | An Evening with Edgar Meyer, Tessa Lark, and Joshua Roman
July 9 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Spotlight Recital
July 9 | 7:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | An Evening of Pierre Boulez
July 10 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Spotlight Recital
July 10 | 6pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Steven Osborne piano
July 10 | 7pm | Edlis Neeson Hall | String Showcase
July 11 | 2:30pm | Pitkin County Library | Spotlight Recital
July 12 | 1:30pm | Aspen Community Church | Spotlight Recital
July 12 | 7:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Isabel Leonard
July 13 | 7pm | Aspen Community Church | A Recital by Ken Cowan
July 14 | 2:30pm | Pitkin County Library | Spotlight Recital
July 14 | 5:30pm | Aspen Center for Physics | Aspen Center for Physics Piano Recital
July 14 | 6pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Patricia Kopatchinskaja and Sol Gabetta
July 16 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Spotlight Recital
July 16 | 7:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Tom Borrow
July 17 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Spotlight Recital
July 17 | 5pm | Aspen Chapel | Spotlight Recital
July 17 | 5:15pm | Basalt Regional Library | Basalt Regional Library Recital
July 17 | 6pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Baroque Evening with Nicholas McGegan
July 17 | 8pm | Edlis Neeson Hall | String Showcase
July 18 | 2:30pm | Pitkin County Library | Spotlight Recital
July 19 | 1:30pm | Aspen Community Church | Spotlight Recital
July 19 | 6:30pm | Edlis Neeson Hall | Sonata Showcase
July 19 | 7:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by the Brentano Quartet
July 20 | 7pm | Aspen Chapel | Art Song Showcase
July 21 | 2:30pm | Pitkin County Library | Spotlight Recital
July 21 | 5:30pm | Aspen Center for Physics | Aspen Center for Physics Piano Recital
July 22 | 6pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Seong-jin Cho
July 23 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Spotlight Recital
July 23 | 7:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by the American Brass Quintet
July 24 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | ABQ Seminar @Aspen Recital
July 24 | 5pm | Aspen Chapel | Spotlight Recital
July 24 | 5:15pm | Basalt Regional Library | Basalt Regional Library Recital
July 24 | 6pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by the Aspen Contemporary Ensemble
July 24 | 7pm | Edlis Neeson Hall | String Showcase
July 25 | 2:30pm | Pitkin County Library | Spotlight Recital
July 26 | 1:30pm | Aspen Community Church | Spotlight Recital
July 26 | 7:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Pekka Kuusisto and Nico Muhly
July 28 | 2:30pm | Pitkin County Library | Spotlight Recital
July 28 | 5:30pm | Aspen Center for Physics | Aspen Center for Physics Piano Recital
July 28 | 6pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Mikhail Voskresensky
July 29 | 6pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Gil Shamam and Adele Anthony
July 30 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Spotlight Recital
July 30 | 7:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Pierre-Laurent Aimard
July 31 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Spotlight Recital
July 31 | 5pm | Aspen Chapel | Spotlight Recital
July 31 | 5:15pm | Basalt Regional Library | Basalt Regional Library Recital
July 31 | 6pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by the Takács Quartet
July 31 | 7pm | Edlis Neeson Hall | String Showcase
Aug 1 | 2:30pm | Pitkin County Library | Spotlight Recital
Aug 2 | 1:30pm | Aspen Community Church | Spotlight Recital
Aug 2 | 6:30pm | Edlis Neeson Hall | Sontana Showcase
Aug 3 | 7pm | Aspen Chapel | Art Song Showcase
Aug 4 | 12pm | Meadows Campus | Recital: Pierre-Laurent Aimard piano plays Messiaen's Catalogue d'oiseaux
Aug 4 | 2:30pm | Pitkin County Library | Spotlight Recital
Aug 4 | 5:30pm | Aspen Center for Physics | Aspen Center for Physics Piano Recital
Aug 4 | 6pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by the Percussion Ensemble
Aug 5 | 7:30pm | Klein Music Tent | An Evening with Lang Lang
Aug 6 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Spotlight Recital
Aug 7 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Spotlight Recital
Aug 7 | 5pm | Aspen Chapel | Spotlight Recital
Aug 7 | 5:15pm | Basalt Regional Library | Basalt Regional Library Recital
Aug 7 | 6pm | harris Concert Hall | A Recital by the Cliburn Competition Winner
Aug 7 | 7pm | Edlis Neeson Hall | String Showcase
Aug 8 | 2:30pm | Pitkin County Library | Spotlight Recital
Aug 9 | 1:30pm | Aspen Community Church | Spotlight Recital
Aug 9 | 7:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Davône Tines and John Bitoy
Aug 10 | 7pm | Aspen Chapel | Art Song Showcase
Aug 11 | 2:30pm | Pitkin County Library | Spotlight Recital
Aug 11 | 5:30pm | Aspen Center for Physics | Aspen Center for Physics Piano Recital
Aug 12 | 6pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Augustin Hadelich and Orion Weiss
Aug 13 | 7:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Sharon Isbin
Aug 14 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | Guitar Recital
Aug 14 | 5pm | Aspen Chapel | Spotlight Recital
Aug 14 | 5:15pm | Basalt Regional Library | Basalt Regional Library Recital
Aug 14 | 6pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Yefim Bronfman
Aug 14 | 7pm | Edlis Neeson | String Showcase
Aug 15 | 2:30pm | Pitkin County Library | Spotlight Recital
Aug 16 | 1:30pm | Aspen Community Church | Spotlight Recital
Aug 16 | 6:30pm | Sonata Showcase
Aug 18 | 2:30pm | Pitkin County Library | Spotlight Recital
Aug 18 | 5:30pm | Aspen Center for Physics | Aspen Center for Physics Piano Recital
Aug 18 | 6pm | Harris Concert Hall | Scott Dunn: Music from Hollywood’s Second Golden Age of Film
Aug 20 | 7:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Robert McDuffie
Aug 21 | 3pm | Harris Concert Hall | AOTVA/Composer Project Recital
Aug 21 | 3pm | Hurst Hall | Spotlight Marathon
Aug 21 | 5pm | Aspen Chapel | Spotlight Recital
Aug 21 | 6pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by Aubree Oliverson and Yanfeng Tony Bai
Aug 22 | 2:30pm | Pitkin County Library | Spotlight Recital
Aug 23 | 1:30pm | Aspen Community Church | Spotlight Recital
Aug 23 | 7:30pm | Harris Concert Hall | A Recital by the Isidore Quartet
The premier training ground for hundreds of the worlds' most talented young musicians, the Aspen Music Festival and School presents hundreds of events during the Festival, which runs July 2 to August 24. To learn more and for a full season calendar, including daily free events, visit aspenmusicfestival.com/events.
